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Gestión y justificación de proyectos

El Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Pascual Vila (CID-CSIC), que alberga al Instituto de Diagnóstico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA-CSIC) y al Instituto de Química Avanzada de Cataluña (IQAC-CSIC), busca una persona para trabajar en la gestión y justificación de proyectos. La persona candidata se encargará de las siguientes tareas: Preparar las convocatorias y […]

Directors of CSIC centers in Catalonia meet to foster synergies

Last Tuesday 20th March, the directors of CSIC centers in Catalonia met at the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) to get to know the research in our center. The IQAC Director Jesús Joglar welcomed Lluís Calvo (CSIC Catalonia delegate), Júlia Borràs (Deputy Director of the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics), Salvador Carranza […]

The IQAC Annual Symposium 2024 was successfully held

The Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) held the 6th edition of its Annual Symposium, which more than 110 people attended, including predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers, technicians, and principal investigators. The scientific projects finished in 2023 were presented during the Symposium. Xavier Gómez-Santacana, from the Medicinal Chemistry and Synthesis group, presented the results of […]

The Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Network (Red-DM) launches its official webpage

The Nucleic Acids Chemistry group, led by Prof. Ramon Eritja’s of the IQAC (CSIC), is participating in a multidisciplinary network for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) with other 6 research groups from Valencia (INCLIVA, BIOTECMED, IIS La Fe), Barcelona (IGTP, IBEC) and Bilbao (IIS BioBiskaia, CSUR-Biodonostia) in the development of novel DNA/RNA-based therapies (oligonucleotides). During […]

A European consortium with the participation of the CSIC will develop a chemical ecology network

The chemical ecology is an interdisciplinary research field that seeks to understand and describe chemical mechanisms that underlie the interactions and communications between living organisms. The E-Niche (European Network in Chemical Ecology) consortium seeks to unify the European research teams in this discipline to increase the visibility of their investigations and share knowledge, tools and […]

The Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry creates the Early Career Scientists group

The Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry (SEQT, in Spanish) has created the “Early Career Scientists” group, to which the researcher Laia Josa-Culleré, from the Medicinal Chemistry and Synthesis group at IQAC, belongs. This new group aims to support SEQT members at the beginning of their careers with guidance, symposiums, and mentoring programs, among other activities. […]

XNA-HUB, platform to boost therapeutic modified oligonucleotides

The creation of the XNA-HUB platform involves a multidisciplinary consortium composed of the company Nostrum Biodiscovery, a joint spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the IRB Barcelona; the Nucleic Acid Chemistry group of the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC); the Nucleic Acid NMR Spectroscopy group of the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical […]

An anticancer drug opens a new path for the treatment of Parkinson’s

  Once they enter the body, drugs, apart from carrying out their therapeutic function, are biochemically transformed by the action of the metabolic machinery, a process that facilitates their expulsion. This biotransformation results in a gradual disappearance of the drug, which is converted into its metabolites. These, in turn, can reach high concentrations in the […]

PhD position on chemical ecology of two major insect pests

The Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) is looking for a PhD student to provide new insights into the chemical ecology of two major insect pests, namely the Moroccan locust Dociostaurus marocannus (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera: Tephritidae). The candidate will identify novel compounds involved in the intraspecific communication […]